Kuwait to bury ISIS attack victims as security beefed up

June 27, 2015 16:47

Kuwait will hold a mass funeral on Saturday for 26 victims of a Shi'ite mosque bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group as the shocked oil-rich emirate tightens security.

The interior ministry said in a statement early Saturday that 26 people and the suicide bomber were killed and 227 others were wounded in one of the country's worst bombings and its first ever on a mosque.

The attack targeted Al-Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in the capital Kuwait City during Friday noon prayers.

The mosque authorities said in a statement that "Kuwait martyrs" will be laid to rest at the Shi'ite cemetery, west of the capital, at 4:00 pm

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